Excerpts From Reviews
“Boyer’s novel pokes a knowing finger into the painful underbelly of the Santa Fe mystique….Junkyard Dreams is a fun read. Beyond this, it examines the more serious struggles that take place in Santa Fe and other similar communities that contend with the competing pressures of development and preservation." | |
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Andrew Lovato La Herencia | |
In her relationally driven novel, Jeanette Boyer explores the complexities of settling in an area long rooted in tradition….A key theme in Junkyard Dreams is this idea of responsibility – when is it appropriate to initiate change and when does community take precedent over individuality? | |
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Amber Hartley New Mexico Magazine | |
Boyer's competent debut follows the outspoken, lonely Rita Vargas, who obsesses over preserving her old family junkyard and open desert land in the face of … relentless suburban sprawl…Boyer deftly dramatizes Western land development, with its ominous impact on small family landowners, and offers vibrant depictions of the threatened natural desertscape. | |
Publishers Weekly | |
Hunger for love and for real estate - two great topics for a novel set in today's sprawling Santa Fe....Boyer has a nice touch, not only in making real estate complexities seem easy to grasp, but also in creating characters who, like real people, are neither perfectly good nor evil, though all are greedy for something. | |
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Kevin Zoretich Albuquerque Journal | |
A novel must tell a story, but if it seeks to be literature rather than mere entertainment, it must do two things more - communicate a message or an idea, and provoke readers to see something of their own lives in the fictional characters. A new novel by a New Mexican about New Mexico does all these things. | |
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Wally Gordon The Independent | |